This series contains the personal correspondence of James Kent, William Kent, and James Kent, Jr. as well as their friends and family members. It is arranged chronologically in 101 folders.
Box 1 Folder 1
Transcription of letter from James Kent to N. Lawrence, 1787 December 22
Box 1 Folder 2
Transcription of letter James Kent to Simeon Baldwin, 1790 December 4
Box 1 Folder 3
Letter from James Kent to Elizabeth Bailey Kent, 1793 May 10
Box 1 Folder 4
Miscellaneous Calling Cards collected by Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Pinckney, 1790s, 17 items
Box 1 Folder 5
Invitation to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas (and Elizabeth Motte) Pinckney from Jane Maxwell, the Duchess of Gordon, 179- March 29
Box 1 Folder 6
Invitation to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas (and Elizabeth Motte) Pinckney from Charles Jenkinson, the First Earl of Liverpool, 179- April 8
Box 1 Folder 7
Invitation to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Pinckney from "The Mrs. Pinckney", 179- September 5
Box 1 Folder 8
Note from Mr. and Mrs. Church, to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Pinckney, 179-
Box 1 Folder 9
Note from Mrs. Church to Thomas Pinckney, 179- July 19
Box 1 Folder 10
Recommendation letter from John Adams to Oliver Wolcott, 1799 August 9
Box 1 Folder 11
Letter of permission to sell land from Anne Louise Germaine Necker, Baronne de Staël-Holstein to Moss Kent, with a note from James Kent, 1806 July 8
Box 1 Folder 12
Note from Henry Dundas, the First Viscount Melville to Aaron Burr, 1809 February 17
Box 1 Folder 13
Letter from John Bristed to James Kent, 1818 April 4
Box 1 Folder 14
Request to meet for coffee from Sir Thomas Picton to Aaron Burr, 1808 November 24
Box 1 Folder 15
Letter from Barthold Georg Niebuhr to Aaron Burr, 1810 January 9
Box 1 Folder 16
Letter from John Quincy Adams to William Pinckney, 1816 June 12
Box 1 Folder 17
Letter from James Kent to Moss Kent, 1817 August 1
Box 1 Folder 18
Letter from James Kent to Benjamin Silliman, 1819 August 7
Box 1 Folder 19
Note from Isaac S. Hone to Philip Hone, 1822 February
Box 1 Folder 20
Letter from James Kent to Thomas Washington, Esq., 1828 October 6
Box 1 Folder 21
Letter from Joseph Parkes to James Kent, 1828 October 14
Box 1 Folder 22
Note from Henry Clay to James Kent, 1833 January 24
Box 1 Folder 23
Note from Daniel Webster to James Kent, 1833 January 28
Box 1 Folder 24
Letter of introduction from William Sampson to James Kent, 1833 March 30
Box 1 Folder 25
Letter from Robert Parker to James Kent, 1833 May 10
Box 1 Folder 26
Note from Francis Lieber to James Kent, 1833 August 8
Box 1 Folder 27
Letter from Francis Lieber to James Kent, 1833 September 12
Box 1 Folder 28
Note from John Church Hamilton to James Kent, 1834 May 18
Box 1 Folder 29
Letter from Andrew Jackson to Samuel Swartwont, 1834 November 10
Box 1 Folder 30
Letter from William Smith to James Kent, 1836 November 21
Box 1 Folder 31
Letter from Daniel Webster to James Kent, 1837 January 20
Box 1 Folder 32
Letter from Moss Kent to William Kent, 1837 February 5
Box 1 Folder 33
Letter from Henry Clay to James Kent, 1837 February 22
Box 1 Folder 34
Letter from John Quincy Adams to James Kent, 1837 March 2
Box 1 Folder 35
Letters of Catherine Maria Sedgwick, 1838 June 14
Box 1 Folder 36
Photostat of letter from Carper Pruyn to James Kent (re: the death of Stephen Van Rensselaer), 1839 January 28
Box 1 Folder 37
Condolence letter from James Kent to Cornelia Paterson Van Rensselaer, 1839 January 30
Box 1 Folder 38
Note from Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts, to Mr. and Mrs. Daniel (and Caroline LeRoy) Webster, 1839 June 26
Box 1 Folder 39
Invitation from Sir Edward Hall and Lady Alderson to Mr. and Mrs. Daniel (and Caroline LeRoy) Webster, 1839 June 29
Box 1 Folder 40
Note from John Curteis to Caroline Le Roy Webster, 1839 July 6
Box 1 Folder 41
Note from Lady Catherine Pollok Manners Stepney to Mr. and Mrs. Daniel (and Caroline LeRoy) Webster, 1839 July 13
Box 1 Folder 42
Letter from John Kenyon to Daniel Webster, 1839
Box 1 Folder 43
Letter from Lady Georgiana Fane to Caroline Le Roy Webster, 1839
Box 1 Folder 44
Note from Thomas Whitmore to the London Horticultural Society, 1839
Box 1 Folder 45
Letter from Eliphalet Nott to William Henry Seward, 1840 January 26
Box 1 Folder 46
Letter from George Evans to James Kent, 1840 May 10
Box 1 Folder 47
Letter from Josiah Quincy to James Kent, 1841 March 16
Box 1 Folder 48
Letter of thanks from President John Tyler to Caroline Le Roy Webster, 1841 June 14
Box 1 Folder 49
Letter in French to James Kent from Unknown, 1841 June 15
Box 1 Folder 50
Letter from Henry Black to James Kent, 1841 November 28
Box 1 Folder 51
Note from Dorothea (Dolly) Payne Todd Madison (Mrs. James) to Daniel Webster, 1842 April 5
Box 1 Folder 52
From Dorothea (Dolly) Payne Todd Madison (Mrs. James) to Caroline Le Roy Webster, 1842 June 1
Box 1 Folder 53
Letter from Daniel Webster to James Kent, 1842 December 17
Box 1 Folder 54
Letter from James Kent to Daniel Webster, 1842 December 21
Box 1 Folder 55
Letter from Edward Everett to James Kent, 1843 December 26
Box 1 Folder 56
Letter from William G. Hocker to James Kent, 1844 May 20
Box 1 Folder 57
Letter from Edward Everett to James Kent, 1845 June 12
Box 1 Folder 58
Letter from George William Frederick Howard (Viscount Morpeth), 7th Earl of Carlisle, to James Kent, 1845 June 15
Box 1 Folder 59
Letter from Thomas Cowperthwait & Co. to James Kent, 1846 August 21
Box 1 Folder 60
Letter from Simon Greenleaf to James Kent, 1846 September 9
Box 1 Folder 61
Letter from Robert Greenhow to James Kent, 1847 April 19
Box 1 Folder 62
From James Kent to William Bradford Reed, 1847 July 4
Box 1 Folder 63
From William Pennington to William Kent, 1847 December 25
Box 1 Folder 64
Letter of condolence from the Supreme Court of Tennessee to William Kent, 1848 January 8
Box 1 Folder 65
From (photostat) from William Charles Macready to William Kent, 1848 December 7
Box 1 Folder 66
(Photostat) from William T.L. Smithy to Winfield Scott, 1848 December 16
Box 1 Folder 67
(Photostat) from William Charles Macready to William Kent, 1848 December 17
Box 1 Folder 68
From Samuel Miller to William Kent, 1848 January 29
Box 1 Folder 69
(Photostat) from William Charles Macready to William Kent, 1849 May 12
Box 1 Folder 70
(Photostat) from George Ticknor Curtis to William Kent, 1849 June 26
Box 1 Folder 71
(Photostat) from George Ticknor Curtis to William Kent, 1849 June 30
Box 1 Folder 72
From Abijah Hubbard Moss to William Kent, 1849 July 5
Box 1 Folder 73
From Hamilton Fish to William Kent, 1849 July 12
Box 1 Folder 74
From Abner Morse to William Kent, 1849 September 22
Box 1 Folder 75
Note from George I. Cornell to William Kent, 1849 October 1
Box 1 Folder 76
Letter from "T." O'Connell to William Kent, 1849 October 24
Box 1 Folder 77
Letter from William Pennington to William Kent, 1850 February 4
Box 1 Folder 78
Letter from James Walker to William Kent, 1853 February 15
Box 1 Folder 79
Letter from James Walker to William Kent, 1853 February 19
Box 1 Folder 80
Telegram from James Monroe & Co. to James Kent Jr., 1853 March 1
Box 1 Folder 81
Letter from Martin Van Buren to "G." Kemble, 1856 October 26
Box 1 Folder 82
Letter from Henry Codman Potter to Helen Riggs Kent, 1861 January 6
Box 1 Folder 83
Letter from Theodorus Bailey to Helen Riggs Kent, 1861 January 8
Box 1 Folder 84
Note from Nathaniel Prentiss Banks to James Kent, Jr., 1861 July 3
Box 1 Folder 85
Note from Joseph B. Bradley to James Kent Jr, 1876 February 8
Box 1 Folder 86
Note from Noah Davis to James Kent Jr, 1876 February 14
Box 1 Folder 87
Note from Charles O'Conor to James Kent Jr., 1878 July 30
Box 1 Folder 88
Note from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to James Kent Jr. (attached to an engraving of Longfellow), re: the word "lily pad", 1874 October 25
Box 1 Folder 89
Letter from Benjamin D. Silliman to James Kent Jr., 1877 November 3
Box 1 Folder 90
Note from William Ferdinand Morgan to Emilly Taylor Lorillard, 1881 April 30
Box 1 Folder 91
Note from Sydney Smith to Unknown person, undated
Box 1 Folder 92
Note from Sir and Lady John Nicholl to Mr. and Mrs. Pinckney, undated
Box 1 Folder 93
Note from William Charles Macready to unknown person, undated
Box 1 Folder 94
Note from William Charles Macready to William Kent, undated
Box 1 Folder 95
Letter from Mary Alsop King to Elizabeth Motte Pinckney, undated
Box 1 Folder 96
Letter from Mary Alsop King to Elizabeth Motte Pinckney, undated
Box 1 Folder 97
Letter from James Kent to "his cousin", undated
Box 1 Folder 98
From Lord Jeffrey Francis to James Kent, undated
Box 1 Folder 99
From Charles Gould to James Kent, December 20, undated
Box 1 Folder 100
Note from "Dupin" to James Kent (written in the third person), undated
Box 1 Folder 101
From Thomas Denman (Baron) to unknown, undated